Naresh, 36, is a Bhuva, meaning a ‘faith healer’, in Vinchhiya village in Ahmedabad district. Bhuvas are ritualistic practitioners believed to channel deities. Rationalist organisations in. A man allegedly murdered his 10-year-old son by repeatedly smashing the boy's head against the ground and hitting him with a stick near a goddess's altar at their home in Gujarat's Ahmedabad district.